Biography Richard Tallant

A landscape painter of the Rocky Mountains and pastoral settings and an illustrator, Richard Tallant was born in Zanesville, Ohio. He went West as a young man, spending many years in Colorado mining camps and in Denver. As an artist, he was self taught, and in 1886 to 1887, was active in the Denver Art Club.

He married, and the couple settled in Devil's Gulch near Estes Park, Colorado where he was a long-time Justice of the Peace, which earned him the nickname "Judge Tallant."

He traveled throughout the West, painting the Grand Canyon, the Tetons, Colorado Rockies, and Mount Hood, and in 1887, he depicted the Pueblo Indians of New Mexico. Many of reproductions of his work appeared in periodicals and calendars, especially his
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